A jury has convicted 40-year-old David Flavell of assault with intent to rape a Massachusetts General Hospital employee. The 40-year-old former Salem resident, who before this latest incident was already registered as a Level 3 sex offender, was accused of attacking the woman inside the Boston hospital’s lobby bathroom last October. The jury also convicted Flavell of Massachusetts assault and battery and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors said that Flavell, who was waiting outside the woman’s restroom, followed the victim inside and placed an “out of order” sign on the door. They say that he pushed the victim’s head against the floor, tore her pants, hit her on the face, and tried to rape her before she got away. The Suffolk County District attorney’s office said that the “dangerous weapon” reference refers to the floor and the wall.

Because this is not Flavell’s first criminal offense, he could be sentenced to life in prison rather than the 20-years prison sentence that comes with a first conviction of assault with intent to rape. During the mid-1990’s, he was arrested in Salem for lewd sexual acts. He was convicted in Essex County in 1998 of assault with intent to rape. He was also arrested in Salem and Methuen six times for allegedly sexually pleasuring himself on clothes that were hanging in local stores. He was arrested in Salem in 2003 after he called a help line and said he was worried about what he might do. He was charged with making a false report. During a 2006 criminal trial, a Massachusetts Superior Court Judge determined that Flavell wasn’t a sexually dangerous person. Flavell was arrested in 2008 for peeping into a women’s stall at a Braintree bookstore.

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